SEFS alumna and glacier research technician Kendall Becker is studying insulated rock glaciers in Utah’s Wasatch Range offering climate hope amidst wide-spread ice decline in the Western U.S.
NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce recently covered rock glacier research out of Utah’s Wasatch Range for All Things Considered. SEFS alumna Kendall Becker, a research technician, and mountain ecologist Scott Hotaling are on a mission to collect glacial ice samples from natural cravases on a rock glacier upslope of White Pine Lake.
Read moreSEFS Commencement Speakers: Andrea & Erik Anderson of Westcott Bay Shellfish Co.
Andrea (Lindstrom) Anderson and Erik Anderson met at the University of Washington College of Forest Resources in 1981 and have been together ever since!
Andrea received her B.S. degree in Forestry/Land Use Planning in 1985.
New lidar product of global building height launches, led by SEFS Alumnus Guang Zheng and Professor L. Monika Moskal
In his time at UW, Guang Zheng was the first PhD student in SEFS Professor L. Monika Moskal’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory. Last year, Zheng returned as a visiting professor from Nanjing University to work with Moskal on using a space-born lidar sensor, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), on the International Space Station to produce global maps of building heights.
Read moreSEFS-led paper on forest productivity potential linked to UN Sustainable Development Goal
Research by SEFS alumna Angela Klock and SEFS emeritus faculty members Kristiina and Daniel Vogt was highlighted as contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goal tackling global hunger, food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
Read moreSEFS alumnus Chang Dou receives American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 under 35 award
SEFS alumnus Chang Dou (SEFS/BSE MS ’13, Ph.D. ’17) was selected as one of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 under 35. This award, presented every three years, honors exceptional AIChE members under the age of 35 who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemical Engineering and to AIChE.
Read moreSEFS alumna Lucy Hutyra awarded MacArthur “genius grant”
SEFS alumna Lucy Hutyra, an environmental ecologist studying the impacts of urbanization on environmental carbon cycle dynamics, has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellows Program recognizes people of outstanding talent and enables recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.
Read moreAlumni Feature: ONRC graduate student Ally Kruper on research and community
Since transferring to the University of Washington in her junior year, SEFS alumna Ally Kruper has made the most of opportunities to get involved outside the classroom. Her passion for horticulture and working with communities led to an internship with the SER-UW Native Plant Nursery at the Center for Urban Horticulture.
Read moreSEFS faculty and alumni appointed to newly established Northwest Forest Plan Federal Advisory Committee
The USDA Forest Service announced the formation of a new Federal Advisory Committee to advise on a climate-informed approach to landscape management across national forest lands in Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
Read moreAlumni Feature: From lab bench to boardroom, Danielle Pascoli is giving waste a second life
Where some see waste, SEFS alumna Danielle Pascoli sees possibility. That perspective has led her from looking for higher-value uses for plant waste during her PhD to becoming the sole founder of an innovative nanofiber company in the last year.
Read moreSEFS remembers UW alumna and long-time SEFS supporter Mary Ellen Denman
Mary Ellen Moody Denman passed away Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 94 years old. Alongside her husband William “Dick” Denman, who passed in 2007, the Denman’s were significant contributors to the SEFS faculty and have left a lasting legacy in the form of three faculty endowments and a student excellence fund.
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